author | mgondan |
| Mon Jun 21 09:07:25 2021 +0200 |
committer | Jan Wielemaker |
| Mon Jun 21 09:13:20 2021 +0200 |
commit | 43a28412d9dacde2d38ea47383f4d88785f8884e |
tree | cbc869fe72c0a9cacdec41c2096df6ec4b2b8a93 |
parent | 3250a930fb4ccc258de8b2401e3d526265731abf |
diff --git a/build/MinGW.txt b/build/MinGW.txt
index a2c6780..0996b65 100644
--- a/build/MinGW.txt
+++ b/build/MinGW.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Building SWI-Prolog for MS-Windows under Linux is supported using
## Building on Windows itself
-According to Matthias Gondon most of the system can be build on Windows
+According to Matthias Gondan most of the system can be build on Windows
as follows:
- install msys2 from msys2.org
@@ -31,10 +31,13 @@ as follows:
- ``mkdir build``
- ``cd build``
- ``cmake -DMINGW_ROOT=/mingw64 -DLIBUUID_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/include -DUUID_LIBRARY=/usr/local/lib/libuuid.a -DBDB_LIBRARY=/mingw64/bin/libdb-6.0.dll -DINSTALL_DOCUMENTATION=OFF -DSWIPL_PACKAGES_X=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr/local -G "MSYS Makefiles" ..``
- - only dot dot in the previous line, and avoid "typographic" quotation marks
- ``make``
- ``make install``
+ - Copy some dlls to the installation folder:
+ - ``cd /usr/local/bin``
+ - ``cp `ldd libarchive-13.dll |grep -o "/mingw64/bin/.*\\.dll"` .``
- ``swipl``
+ - ``check_installation.``
See this [post on Discourse](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/compiling-with-msys2/3936/4)